SERMON OUTLINE: “STRENGTH AND LOVE” Psalm 62 Introduction – Children’s Letters to God God: The bad people laughed at Noah – you make an ark on dry land you fool. But he stuck with you. That’s what I would do. Eddie The Scandal in the Text The Problem – Attack! David’s Solution The Scandal in […]

SERMON OUTLINE: “ADVENT IS A PROPOSAL” John 1:1-14 Introduction – The Story of the Prince High Personage: The Word The Word for Greeks The Word for Jews The Word for us – The Third Thing? Change of Address: Made His Dwelling Among Us Another “Straight Story”? The Violence & Profanity of the Incarnation The Proposal: […]

SERMON OUTLINE: “ADVENT IS CHURCH” Mark 1:14-20 Introduction – Christmas & Babies Lesson 1: The Church ______________Where It Doesn’t_______________ Frederick Bruner – “Galilee is a strange place for a Messiah to work. There is no rabbinic reference to the Messiah’s appearing or working in Galilee… The distance from Zion (Jerusalem) was not only geographic; Galileans […]

SERMON OUTLINE: “ADVENT IS ACCOMMODATION” LUKE 7:18-23 Introduction – The Class Pet John the Baptist In Prison The Beatitude 23 Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me. John’s Doubt Our Doubt The Jesus We Don’t Expect Recalibrating Our Hearts & Minds Conclusion – Advent is Accommodation There comes a time in […]

SERMON OUTLINE: “ADVENT IS HOPE” ISAIAH 9:1-7 Introduction – What do you think? Hope is a powerful force in our hearts that keeps people pressing forward in situations that, from the outside looking in, look fruitless to the rest of us. Scott Hoezee Isaiah’s World & Ours A Triple Hope Hope for Healing in the […]